Red Stinkwood (Prunus Africana)

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  • DETAILED INFORMATION
     
    Another name: red stinkwood
    Location: the montane regions of Sub-Saharan Africa
    Height: 10-25 m (in forest)
                10-20 m (in grassland)Bark
    – color: black to brown
    – features: corrugated, fissured, scalyLeaves
    – features: alternate, simple, elliptic, bluntly, acutely pointed, glabrous, mildly serrate margins
    – length: 8-20 cm
    – color: dark green above, pale green below
    – central vein: depressed on top, prominent on the bottom

    Petiole
    – length: 2 cm
    – color: pink or red

    Flowers
    – features: androgynous, insect-pollinated,
    – length: 70 mm
    – color: greenish white or buff
    – time to grow: October through May
    – stamens
    – amount: 10-20
    – length: 3–8 cm

    Fruit
    – length: 7–13 mm
    – color: red to brown
    – ripening: September through November (several months after pollination)

 

  • WHY IT IS ENDANGERED?
    People used them for medical uses, and has resulted becoming endangered.

 

  • WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO SAVE IT? DOES IT HAVE ANY USES?
    It is use to make medicine, especially the bark, used for illness, such as cancer, fevers, stomach ache, wound dressing, arrow poison, kidney disease, malaria, purgative, gonorrhea, appetite stimulant, and insanity.

 

  • DETAILED AND PRACTICAL PLAN FOR HOW IT CAN BE SAVED
    Researchers have developed a program to investigate the possibility of domesticating the species. This work was began with a survey of the genetic variation in the wild, followed by seed collection and the establishment of live gene banks. The results from gene banks showed that the survival rate of all provenance’s varied from 60% to 100%. There was a variation in mean height of 5-month-old plants of less than 40 cm, to over 100cm. 

 

  • QUOTE ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
    – maintain the high moisture, because it promotes the development
    – watershed function
    – fewer people visiting
    – controlled in using lesser land

 

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